Tim McVeigh has faded from view, and he wasn’t of much use to the left anyway. Can’t pin Oklahoma City on the Christians, since he was an avowed atheist. It just didn't fit the narrative: The Rush Limbaugh right deplored and condemned the bombing and cheered McVeigh's death. We believe in the rule of law after all; killing people and destroying things is not only inhumane, it's very unconservative.
Back in January, the shooting of Gabriel Giffords re-energized lefty excitement. They were all over that story like ants on a log, only to see the narrative again wilt under the harsh facts that the shooter was a dope smoking leftist who had never heard of Sarah Palin and who also happened to be an atheist.
At first, the Norway mass murder looked like the work of Muslim terrorists. Any time something goes boom in the civilized world, there's a better than 95% chance an angry Islamist is behind it, and no sooner was the news out than the Islamic Death Cultists cheered the event and tried to take credit for it. Even as the facts emerged, it still seemed there could be a Muslim connection. This is the continent where World Bankers are brought low by devout Muslim prostitutes working as hotel maids after all. But no, it was a self-described neonazi Christian whose anti-Muslim plan was to get his countrymen on his side by killing a hundred of them.
Tea Partiers, Brace Yourselves
The left will use the popular media to continue to make excuses for every act of Muslim violence, while blaming everyone to the right of Barack Obama for every act of horror great or small committed by any non-Muslim of European descent. The left that takes pains to separate the millions of good Muslims from the scant few who commit violence will gleefully lump conservative in with the neonazis and violent rightwing extremists, although we have nothing in common.
So do your homework now, and every time an uninformed moron opens his yap to repeat the latest daily kook trope or MSNBC poison gas propaganda attack, shove it back in their faces. Ask them to show you where Jesus advocated shooting children and blowing up buildings. Make them explain how Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin have blood on their hands. Bottom line is they can't.
Probably the best thing you can do is explain how the Norwegian has perverted Christianity and does not represent all Christians. Libs should understand the argument. They've been making it for years in excusing violent Islamic extremism.
Atlantic - Why The European Right Can't be Blamed
Inside the Mind of the Oslo Murderer
Douthat - A Rightwing Monster
Guardian - Not Christian but Anti-Islam
NY Times - Norway Attacks
Fox - Norway Suspect
WSJ - Norway Gunman
